Woke early this morning, nothiing much to do so went look at the other people blog

And chanced upon a DNApersonsality test and i also took the test.  Result reflected that i am a genuine + leader, maybe like one of my fave general.

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What is leadership?  I remembered this is one of the lesson which is compuslory in all my formal military training, e.g. OCS, Advanced School..etc.  Till, today I think SAF is still grappling with the concept of leadership.  Just ask anyone from the street, on which SAF general that they remebered by name, my guess is none or at best Gen. Winston Choo (by virtue that he was the first CDF). If he is such a good leader, people should have remembered his name right?   I opined that to understand leadership, one has to undergoes a real crisis, nearing life and death situation. To me, leader is to convince his men to die for the country or what ever belief they fight/stand for.  People react differently under fire/crisis, the rank you wear, will not protect you from the selfish thinnking of men or worse.

I still remembered one of the fave question asked at Military Interview Board “What is a differences between a leader and manager?”  After all these years, I came out with this simple and concise answer.  One is lead by the heart, the other by the head.  To ask people to die, is NOT rational decision that people will accept and is can only be done thru the people’ hearts.  U need a heart to convince other heart, as the chinese proverb goes ”jiang xin bi xin”.

In the history of mankind, we human are good at killing off each other, the 2 Great Wars are the testimonies.  Let hope that when the next Great war starts, is not within our life time. For peace, i willing to accept the current “blur” definition of leadership and let those scholars at SAF spent their time daydreaming the ideal leadership model.